National Threat Assessment 2008. Organised Crime - Politie
National Threat Assessment 2008. Organised Crime - Politie
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The future<br />
The details presented here only provide an insight into a few aspects of the<br />
use of the Internet for criminal activities. The Internet plays a role in almost all<br />
the criminal phenomena addressed in previous chapters: from the skimming of<br />
bank cards by Romanian gangs, the setting-up of cannabis nurseries, and the<br />
exchanging of knowledge for stealing luxury cars, to obtaining identity details,<br />
illegal copying of video and audio carriers and money laundering in cyberspace.<br />
The digitisation of our society will only increase in the near future and, as a<br />
result, the use of the digital highway for criminal activities will increase.<br />
6.7 Smuggling via regional and small airports<br />
The main logistics hubs for crossing the national borders are Schiphol Airport<br />
and the port of Rotterdam. The role of these two ports was addressed in<br />
previous chapters in the discussion of drugs, human trafficking, human<br />
smuggling, car theft, international waste streams and corruption of public<br />
servants. In the context of ‘issuing an alert’, which is the focus of this chapter,<br />
Schiphol and the port of Rotterdam do not require any further attention.<br />
However, this does not apply to the role of regional and small airports,<br />
knowledge about them is still insufficient.<br />
In the previous NTA in 2004 the lack of supervision at small airports was<br />
pointed out. It was stated that this created opportunities for smuggling. In this<br />
section we will reassess the role of regional and small airports 77 in cross‐border<br />
criminal activities. This reassessment will be based on the research report on<br />
airports that was prepared by the Verwey-Jonker Institute on behalf of the<br />
Royal Netherlands Marechaussee. 78<br />
The source material for the NTA was also studied for information about smaller<br />
ports for pleasure boats and inland shipping. The results of that study will be<br />
briefly discussed at the end of this section.<br />
Money laundering<br />
At airports money laundering mainly occurs in the importing and exporting of<br />
cash and shipments of money in parcel post. At all regional airports money is<br />
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There are six regional airports: Rotterdam, Eindhoven, Maastricht, Groningen and Enschede.<br />
The small airports are Seppe, Teuge, Hilversum, Hoogeveen, Lelystad, Texel, Ameland, Midden<br />
Zeeland, Budel, Den Helder and Drachten.<br />
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Goderie, M., I. de Groot & J.C.J. Boutellier. Nationaal Dreigingsbeeld Nederlandse Luchthavens<br />
(<strong>National</strong> <strong>Threat</strong> <strong>Assessment</strong> for Dutch Airports). Verwey-Jonker Instituut. February <strong>2008.</strong><br />
chapter 6 – alerts<br />
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